I haven’t seen very many of these qualities in Sarah Palin’s track record.

When I choose to work with someone as a co-worker or staff member I look for certain qualities. 1. Able to work within a team environment. 2. Understanding that while they have great ideas, they may not be the ideas we need to go with right now. 3. They understand what a budget is and how it is to be used. 4. Able to respect other peoples ideas and opinions. 5. Able to respond to others thoughts or criticisms in a mature, thoughtful, and careful way. 6. Able to understand the job at hand, capable of handeling the job at hand, and willing to put in the time and effort to do their best at the job at hand. 7. And very importantly, that they don’t waste other peoples time and money by doing things that are unrelated to the needs and demands of the job at hand.

I haven’t seen very many of these qualities in Sarah Palin’s track record.

When I look up to someone to lead this great country and to be someone for me to look up to and hold my head high, I look for the following qualities. 1. Someone that has a track record of maintaining verbally or written goals. 2. Someone that is compassionate about the people they will be serving. 3. Someone that has the best interest of the people they are serving. 4. Someone that understands where they people are that they are serving: financially. 5. Has the ethical background of being able to work on a team locally, nationally, and globally. 6. Is able to understand that the needs of the many do outweigh the needs of the few. 7. Is able to respond to attacks or insults without attacking or insulting in return. 8. Has a track record of staying within a budget and not incurring more expense then was previously on the books. 9. Stands up for what they believe in, and still listens and follows what the majority demand.

Unfortunately, Sarah Palin isn’t showing me much of those either.

While a strong and energetic woman can be beautiful. She also needs to understand that a serpents tongue and strong muscles will not bring peace to a land that is riddled with hatred (KKK), violance (gangs), pain (domestic abuse), and hunger (USA children not having food), and so much more. She needs to be strong as a caring, understanding, calm, and thoughtful person that puts the needs of others before her own.

I have seen what is capable of (with her family and her previous position in Alaska) and it scares me to think that a woman like that would be considered for any governing position over anything (including a family).

My own 2 cents.

Anna Campbell

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That’s what’s great about America – we can all be different.

I don’t think there’s anything lacking inside with Palin or other women who strive for important roles – in fact I believe there’s a passion to do something significant in the larger world. In that way I’m aligned with Palin – but that’s probably the ONLY way I’m aligned with her. In almost every other way my viewpoints are extremely different from hers. I will acknowledge there are days when I’d just like to go to a spa for a week – but they are very short-lived.

The important thing is that you’re living the life that makes you happy – and that your beliefs (the man in charge) have worked out with your reality. It’s great when that happens.

Women like Sarah Palin (IMO) need much more than [deceptive] control… it’s something lacking deep within and again IMO they wear a mask that has to be continued each day even when they don’t feel like it.

I admire women like Hillary Clinton. She’s walked the walk and continues to talk the talk with a proven paper trail. I do agree that a lot of women desire to be strong and empowered however, at the end of the day, family values, social conscious, spirituality and the men who love them, take precedence over being in control or some [fake] self imposed power.

Wow! Thanks for letting me get that out!

I spent the day with a group of late 20’s women and they were all very smart and educated and were not at all impressed with Sarah Palin. They felt they wanted to be strong an empowered but they didn’t see her as a model at all. In fact, quite the opposite, they seem to feel even more inspired now, to get out there and offer an alternative. At the end of the day, you can’t support someone just because they are strong and confident. You need to support her because you are aligned with her values and you think she would make a good leader. I don’t and neither did any of these young women.

It was in the late-70s when Helen Gurley Brown started us on the message of “you can have it all.” I was in college at the time. Personally I thought there are trade-offs and my life has shown me that you can have it all – just not all at the same time. Women 40 and under started hearing the “you can have it all” message when they were little girls and much more impressionable. There were a couple cover articles in Time and Newsweek last year about how women who are trying to have it all and try to balance are going a little bonkers and suffering physically and emotionally. But the younger women keep trying to get it right. Despite shooting wolves while leaning out of planes I think some look at Palin and think, “Geez, she’s actually doing it.”

There isn’t a single comment from Lukeither, Kaya and Barbara that I can disagree with. There’s much to find objectionable with this woman and her meteoric rise. But sometimes the world changes in ways we don’t expect and that aren’t exactly to our liking.

After all, I never thought the “fashion police” would ever manage to make pantyhose hopelessly outdated and the sign of an old lady look – but they did.

All the best,

Denise Michaels
Author, “Testosterone-Free Marketing”

Visit me online at http://www.MentoringwithDenise.com and follow me on Twitter as DeniseMM.

I don’t think that Gov. Palin represents “testosterone-free” to be honest. I think the “testosterone” just transferred to Sarah Palin. Pitbulls and moose-murdering don’t lead me to think I’ll see a business model I can relate to.

Talking that talk in front of fellow conservatives is quite different from pulling it off with a general audience, who may not appreciate the hard-nosed approach.

Self-confidence is a good thing. But I could do without the battle cry. There’s strength, too, in recognizing and valuing the oneness of all life and in seeing the Infinite Spirit in all beings.

Palin, to me, represents another us versus them way of looking at the world. An old political (and business) model, really. All that’s different is the clothing.

Saw your Twitter link… looking forward to more from you on this.

I enjoy what I have and it’s what my parents/grandparents gave me, solid family values and a warm body at the end of the day. At the end of life family is all you have, your status/title doesn’t matter the fans don’t matter the only thing of value is having a warm body and a compassionate person to be there for you.

I wish all the Palin worshipers, all the success they seek, but something/someone always pays the price for a lipstick wearing “pit bull” and it’s usually a close family member. I do respect and admire Hillary Clinton’s choice of being there for her daughter, Chelsea until she became an adult and went off to college before she decided to blaze some trails. In my view that’s what a woman seeking to be a role model does.

Great post!

I’m not judging, I’m just saying though.

She cannot even hold a candle to Hillary who spoke from her heart with love and compassion. I certainly hope that you are wrong and she is not a model of a new empowered woman. She doesn’t even represent me one iota. I want feminine energy at the top but from a woman than gets it and cares. She feels very off track and old school to me. She says the war in Iraq is God’s task. My God believes in resolving conflicts without violence and using war money to pay for health care, education and to support micro-businesses. My gosh- she thinks its ok for women to be paid less than men for the same job!

I could go on but God help us if this is the way we are headed! I guess I did end up being a bit reactive….hehe.